WOOOOOOOOOOOW. The NFL is a joke. I get the rule, but I feel like they failed to realize that refs are going to throw flags whenever THEY feel like someone is leading with the head. Can't wait for hundreds of flags to be thrown because someone is ducking into a pile, or trying to split two defenders.

Can't help but feel bad for the ball carriers going into this season. Chances are none of them change a damn thing they do, HOPEFULLY.

Kind of excited to see this blow up in Roger's face. WHAT A MORON.

ALSO. Can't wait to watch the Pro-bowl 16 weeks out of the year. Cause, we all know how exciting that can be!

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SouthSoundHawk wrote:WOOOOOOOOOOOW. The NFL is a joke. I get the rule, but I feel like they failed to realize that refs are going to throw flags whenever THEY feel like someone is leading with the head. Can't wait for hundreds of flags to be thrown because someone is ducking into a pile, or trying to split two defenders.

Can't help but feel bad for the ball carriers going into this season. Chances are none of them change a damn thing they do, HOPEFULLY.

What a stupid rule if it goes down. What are they gonna do about the goal line when backs are fighting for every yard? It doesn't seem like it has ever been a problem. I don't remember a lot of head injuries to running backs on the plays they are trying to stop.

This will probably hurt running teams the most, I hate this passing league only crap we have to watch now. We might as well just get rid of the RB and just have a QB throw the ball then after a catch rule the play dead.

Seattle, San Francisco, Minnesota, Tampa, and any other team with a good RB has made the running game a liability when they devise a run heavy game plan.

The NFL does not want the NFC West teams to dominate. God forbid that their favorite teams don't make the SB. I am really starting to hate the league now. They keep showing the Robinson hit on Jennings over and over again. Marshall Faulk is not happy at all about this and I for one completely agree with his gripe.

CANHawk wrote:Yeah, most successful business people tend to completely ignore the wishes of their clients. Seems like a good business practice...

Let's be real, the NFL stands to lose absolutely nothing if this rule passes and nothing if it doesn't. No one will stop watching the NFL or stop spending their money on the product based on outcome of the this rule.

Yep. and Enron was worth $100 billion dollars once upon a time ago. What's your point? I agree, this "one rule" isn't going to break them, but it's the continued errosion of what made the game popular in the first place that could eventually make people drift away. With all these cockameme rule changes, I can't help but wonder what comes next, and if I'm still going to care in 15 years.

nfl only cares about advertising dollars, and mainstream companies only want to advertise their products during non-controversial television broadcasts. Unless of course the controversy is fraudulent faux-controversy 'reality' tv or something of course, then it's ok.

This will certainly affect Lynch, and the refs will be watching for him.

The actual quote from the ESPN article isn't "5 plays would've been flagged last year" but "5 backs would be flagged last year". They also go on to mention Forte, Lynch and Adrian Peterson by name as guys that will have to alter their style.

I also agree that this will be open to misinterpretation like the Kam hit on Davis last year. That could've cost us a TD if our defense wasn't on it that game. Notice that Kam got flagged, but he didn't get fined. It still affects the outcome of the game, and this new rule will as well.

No matter what people think of this rule or what side they line up on in the debate one this is certain, it will affect us and our boy Marshawn negatively this year.

I mean whenever we did run a toss play with Marshawn, outside the tackle box, he would almost always finishes his runs by lowering his head and squeaking out as many yards as possible and now after doing it his entire career you expect him to change that overnight?........smh. This is a horrible rule and will hurt us way more than it will help.

The NFL is a joke now. I am all for players not getting hurt but for F's-sake this game is a CONTACT sport, not baseball. Instead of keeping the game the way it is supposed to be, they want to ruin it. Instead of paying the players more and giving them guaranteed contracts, the NFL makes more and more and pays less. If they really cared about the players that's what they'd do, instead they just want to keep their "investments" on the field but don't care about the integrity of the game. With this move all they are trying to prevent is future lawsuits for brain damage and whatnot. Pretty soon the NFL will be the Arena League with 80-90% passes and running only to get 1 or 2 yards. I miss the game I grew up with.

Scottemojo wrote:It is reported that this would have been called 5 times last year.

I will bet money it gets called more than 5 times this year. The refs will error on this one.

So actually, its been reported that when they did their homework on this, they took every game from week 10 and week 16 and watched ever single play.They said there was 5 cases in week 10 and 6 in week 16 that would be penalties.

Doing the math, there is about 130 plays in a game from both sides. week 10 had 14 games playing due to bye's. Week 16 had 16 games.

- so 30 games had an average of 3900 plays where 11 of them were deemed penalized for a ball carrier leading with his crown. I dont know what plays they deemed bad, so I looked up the injury reports for week 10 and week 16. Nobody was injured due to a ball carrier ramming them.

-So in 0.2% of plays in those two weeks, someone rammed with their head and nobody got hurt. Better make a rule for it........

hawksincebirth wrote:So Russell has leverage but marshawn doesn't ? I thought its next man up. Hey we got t jack and bj Daniels right ??

Scottemojo wrote:It is reported that this would have been called 5 times last year.

I will bet money it gets called more than 5 times this year. The refs will error on this one.

So actually, its been reported that when they did their homework on this, they took every game from week 10 and week 16 and watched ever single play.They said there was 5 cases in week 10 and 6 in week 16 that would be penalties.

Doing the math, there is about 130 plays in a game from both sides. week 10 had 14 games playing due to bye's. Week 16 had 16 games.

- so 30 games had an average of 3900 plays where 11 of them were deemed penalized for a ball carrier leading with his crown. I dont know what plays they deemed bad, so I looked up the injury reports for week 10 and week 16. Nobody was injured due to a ball carrier ramming them.

-So in 0.2% of plays in those two weeks, someone rammed with their head and nobody got hurt. Better make a rule for it........

And that's the opinion of people looking at game film after the fact. The number of flags that would have ACTUALLY been thrown would almost certainly be much higher.

The Outfield wrote:Yep.. and those are the some of the most aggravating bad calls. When your player shows an increased intensity of play and then gets wrongfully penalized for it...

I will go one farther: Until the review is done by an official who is not one of the field crew, I won't buy that it is free of bias.

This. Exactly. Not only free from bias, but a lot faster.

EXACTLY. With todays tv coverage and the speed they can rewatch plays, I dont understand why they cant just have someone dedicated to rewatching plays right after they happen and slow action plays down to quickly determine the proper outcome. They can handle this while the players are in huddle, and send a call down to the ref if they can reverse a blown call. The clock would be stopped for a bit anyway if its a flag, so you dont have to worry about hurry up offenses going too fast.

They only need to call-down during flags, and they'll have the time to help the field crew with the correct call. No ref running to the replay booth. They can talk it over on the field (which they do anyways) why the guy upstairs watches the film. Sends his verdict down. And in all honesty, it wouldnt even be used on obvious calls. Offsides, False starts, obvious interferences, the ref can just make the call on the field quickly. But timing calls, personal fouls, intentional grounding, should always be reviewed quickly upstairs with a verdict within 30 seconds.

hawksincebirth wrote:So Russell has leverage but marshawn doesn't ? I thought its next man up. Hey we got t jack and bj Daniels right ??

MontanaHawk05 wrote:Another transparent attempt to turn the NFL into a pure passing league. I'm amazed by their ingenuity.

Yet the owners (ours included) voted for it...hmmm...maybe there is no vast conspiracy?

GREEDY PUNK PAUL ALLEN, THIS LOSS IS ON YOU."I don't give a crap WHAT you gotta pay, Kam is worth it and I don't want to lose a shot at another SB cuz you - a freaking BILLIONAIRE, are cheapskating Kam over a freaking $900,000.You cheapskate." SalishHawkFan SEP 13, 2015 1:47 PM

Cartire wrote:That seems fine until you have refs calling the penalty in real-time. To many plays will get flagged because its to fast and the refs will flag it regardless. To many huge plays have been reversed because of flags. See Kam hit on Davis for an example. All were doing is giving the refs more opinionated control of the game.

This has way to much conspiracy written into it, but I truly think that money talks. And with the amount of money that football betting brings in, you would be stupid not to assume that some of these refs cant be bought. And you would also be stupid to not assume, that some of these rules are in place just to give the refs some extra ability at controlling games.

I think what pisses me off even more than giving SOME of these clowns the freedom to make a call like this without INSTANT replay conformation, or overturn, is the dumbass Leagues head honcho following up on a bad call with a f#^@&g fine.That's like saying I don't care that this bad call was unwarented, just suck it up, and take the injustice up your ass.

All this player safety BS is really starting to piss me off. Nobody forces the players to play, they all choose to because it beats pumping gas or working a checkout at Walmart. There are so many far more dangerous jobs done by hard working people who never come close to seeing a million dollars in their whole lifetime never mind the tens of millions that some of these nancy boys make.Another rule change or two similar to this one and it won't be long before teams are regularly racking up more penalty yards than passing yards.

Scottemojo wrote:Until they have review for these penalties, this will be a stupid rule.

Kams hit on Davis last year should not have been flagged, but was. And this new rule falls under the same "error on the side of caution" type of referee enforcement.

How many other plays should not have been flagged but were due to "heat of the moment" flags?ie. how many flags were thrown but fines not given for such plays for us last year?

Kam didn't get a fine for that play because they reviewed it and said it was OK.I don't remember it happening any other time in over 1000 snaps. Note: I'm not talking about plays where the refs have thrown soft flags like Earl's PI against Miami or just about every call in the Green Bay game, I'm talking about ones where they've called a player's play dangerous when it was within the rules.

hoxrox wrote:This is about former player lawsuits, not about player safety or anything else.

While you and I .....and many folk with common sense...know this, many will "cover their asses" by saying that it is for "player safety"......all the time knowing that it will radically change the game as we now know it!! These "bleeding-heart Liberals" just can't help themselves!

For people who keep saying this is "ruining the game" I have to wonder, were my high school coaches ruining the game also when they taught us to never initiate contact with the top of our helmet on either side of the ball?

The way I see it, upset fans seem to have 2 different angles for their rage:

1. The reduction of violent collisions (which includes the 'two-hand touch' and 'pussification' crowds)2. The in-game officials having too much subjective power

I can see the 2nd, but anyone upset by #1 must also think that youngsters have been taught the wrong way to play football – as it pertains to the crown of the helmet – since at least the 1990s.

MontanaHawk05 wrote:Not there, but there might be a common belief that more passing = more points = more viewers = more revenue.

As soon as this new rule is called twice a game, there will be an increase of pass plays by 10% or more. The demand for running backs will drop as they get fewer carrys as will their financial reimbursement. When this happens, the Player Association will see the folly of this lawsuit......and will drop it by mutual agreement.

What most of you don't realize is that the crown of your head is more towards the back of your head then the front of your head. The rule is being made a big deal, but truthfully it is best for all involved. This rule will not change much of the season- it's more to promote player safety and awareness as well as cover their butts.

The player can still put their head down a bit, they just can lead drop their chin to their chest all the way.

Summary:-Jeff Fisher points to the crown of his head (back top portion) and state that is the only part that is involved in this rule change. The face mask and front top of the head (hairline) is legal.- They are going to send tape that is legal and a lot of it will be, there will only be a few instances in which it won't be legal.- In order for this play to even be illegal the player must "line up" the other player in the open field. - They will teach the on field officials the proper way. Before the penalty is called, the officials are encouraged to meet in a group to come to a consensus rather than calling it from just one view.

Notes:-The Michael Robinson hit on the Bears CB was included, but I didn't see the Lynch play vs. the 49ers on there.

Do you really think 31 out of 32 teams would agree on this rule if it meant players couldn't be aggresive? Of course not. They are trying to make it clear that when you go up against another guy, you shouldn't drop your head so that your face mask is parallel with the ground which could cause serious spinal cord issues.

Just listening to John Clayton on 710 ESPN he said the NFL only looked through 2 weeks of games to make a judgement on this rule. So those 11 timea it would be called a penalty number people were throwing out there.......those 11 were in only a 2 week stretch, not the entire season. Meaning that this would be a call or penalty much more often than it should be. Again......horrible rule.

HawkAroundTheClock wrote:For people who keep saying this is "ruining the game" I have to wonder, were my high school coaches ruining the game also when they taught us to never initiate contact with the top of our helmet on either side of the ball?

The way I see it, upset fans seem to have 2 different angles for their rage:

1. The reduction of violent collisions (which includes the 'two-hand touch' and 'pussification' crowds)2. The in-game officials having too much subjective power

I can see the 2nd, but anyone upset by #1 must also think that youngsters have been taught the wrong way to play football – as it pertains to the crown of the helmet – since at least the 1990s.

They are talking about abandoning kickoffs. They've already almost made return specialists irrelevant by moving up the kickoff spot. How is that not changing the game? What about laying WRs out across the middle? A staple of players like Sam Huff, Ronnie Lott, and Tatum. That's gone. Now the RB, a position that up until this point has been sacrosanct because he's carrying the ball, is being meddled with. Walter Payton would laugh at the absurdity. They are indeed trying to change the game and the way it's played. If you can't see that I don't know what to tell you.

Rog is a lawyer and he's administering the league like a lawyer, with the approval of the owners. I have little patience anymore with their ridiculous fake crusade. It's probably why I get so irritated by the continuous stream of rules they insist on pushing through.